(v. t.) To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.
(v. i.) To chirp.
(n.) The act of chirping; a chirp.
Example Sentences:
(1) The skylark’s summer song is reduced in winter to spits of rage, each broken chirrup rendered to human ears as “get lost!” or something far ruder.
(2) Clegg chirrups with incredible naivety, given Sats, league tables and Ofsted inspections and the already quantified 20% of children with special needs, that this is not "a sort of name-and-shame table".
(3) chirrups a fate-mocking Rob Douglas, who I'm saying resides in Scotland.
(4) "Even if you do decide to go for the double they'll be good as new," chirruped David, as if they were choosing a new oven.
(5) In each was a cicada, chirruping loudly and uselessly to another, destined to spend its short time in an apartment as a rural soundtrack to an urban life.
(6) To the chirrup of bullfrogs and crickets and the occasional cry of a peacock, they march past the last dwelling in the village to a fallow field.
(7) In the original 1991 cartoon, she wasn’t content to do the housework with the help of some chirruping bluebirds: she strolled through town with her nose in a book.
(8) The news will be greeted, as is the custom, with a self-satisfied murmur from governing politicians and a chirruping chorus of cynicism from the great British public.
(9) When I visited last week, a deathly silence reigned, the only noise the chirruping of frogs in uncultivated rice paddies on the edge of town, and the bleeping of my dosimeter.
(10) "M y first Christmas in Poplar was unlike any other I had known," chirrups Jenny (Jessica Raine) as apple-cheeked urchins and flat-capped handymen galumph amiably across snow-dusted cobbles.
(11) For an hour, our group wandered round Pripyat, stepping over broken glass and lumps of wood and stone, with the constant chirrup of our radiation counters providing warnings if we strayed too far.
(12) Chirrup-chirrup for the fox be away with the chicken and the fly be on the turmutt ... but what can you expect if you leave it out at night?"
Cluck
Definition:
(v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
(v. t.) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
(n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.
(n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I cannot tell you how I should deprecate anything leading to the publication of these letters," she clucked to her publisher.
(2) Partial separation from chicks causes a significant decline of the clucking rate in hens, this response however does not disappear as in the case of total separation.
(3) Britain and America make clucking noises but are just as cynical as the Bahraini royal family itself.
(4) Dieticians clucked over quinoa approvingly because it ticked the low-fat box and fitted in with government healthy eating advice to "base your meals on starchy foods".
(5) Let me ask the right honourable gentleman again: why is he so chicken when it comes to the Greens?” This inevitably provoked a chorus of clucks from the Labour benches as Miliband said it was Cameron who was running scared.
(6) "They might not be bitches at all – they might just have faces that look bitchy," one of the films several narrators clucks sympathetically.
(7) Newly hatched domestic chicks learned to prefer the object bearing the same visual characteristics as the environment associated to the initially preferred clucking sound.
(8) That's all done centrally…") then, as days turned to weeks, then months, to a succession of customer complaints people who all clucked and expressed sympathy before saying things like: "moving forward…" and telling me that they hadn't a clue when the bank would get down to dealing with my request.
(9) Then all chicks were individually exposed to two alternating optical stimulus situations of equal length, each of which was accompanied by one of the clucking sounds.
(10) Half a dozen mud and grass-thatched houses circle an ever-changing cast of clucking hens, goats and children.
(11) Barring catastrophic medical reports on Susan Boyle, Britain's Got Talent will undoubtedly continue next year because, brutally, 20 million viewers will always trump a few clucking columnists.
(12) He had now become a rightwing figure, cluckingly approved of by Conservatives.
(13) This helps explain why I found Labour’s opposition over the past five years so woeful, watching as they scrabbled about like so many clucking hens, trying to cobble together a response to Tory austerity.
(14) Subsequently, in an exclusively visual choice situation, the chicks chose the stimulus that had been associated with the preferred clucking sound.
(15) Jeremy is not going to ban meat A rare vegetarian in politics, Corbyn raised concerned bleats and clucks from the livestock sector when he appointed an even rarer political vegan to the farming brief.
(16) In 2010, Komen decided to partner with Kentucky Fried Chicken, sparking a "what the cluck" campaign against it by Breast Cancer Action, an education advocacy group.
(17) He laughs almost constantly; a high guttural clucking, punctuated by long pauses and apologies and puffs on a breakfast cigarette.
(18) Domestic chicks chose after prenatal exposure between two different clucking sounds by running towards one loudspeaker and settling there.
(19) The "intelligent, gentlemanlike" practitioner is a kind of therapist, whose business is humouring his clucking patients.
(20) Because of our low turnover, and the fact that people are really into their jobs, $15 an hour wasn’t a big stretch,” Brian Parker, co-founder of Moo Cluck Moo, told NPR .